Bemoaning difficulties of engaging with his electorate and the nation at large during these troubles economic times, British PM Gordon Brown offered a remarkably bizarre idea in The Guardian over the weekend:
"Yes, but I've tried to get around the country more, it's much more interesting ... It's been very difficult to focus on [strategic planning] because you have to deal with immediate events like if a bank's going to go under. It's difficult to be running around the country if you're dealing with that." In fact, Brown has a truly innovative idea for how the prime minister should live: "If you could run No 10 from a train, getting round the country, that would be the best way."
I was immediately struck with memories of Prentice McCabe's subversive innovation for the House of Lords in BBC comedy, Absolute Power.
